The Scoop Blog

The pileup left a furniture truck dangling over the guardrail on the bridge over the Trinity River. (Michael Ainsworth/Staff Photographer)

Update at 12:45 p.m.:

Westbound I-30 has reopened about five hours after this morning’s collision between a furniture truck and a U.S. Postal Service 18-wheeler.

The crash sent six men to the hospital with injuries that did not appear life-threatening.

Still waiting to hear what happened and who was at fault. I’m sure there’s plenty of commuters out there who want to know whom to blame.

Original post at 8 a.m.:

Interstate 30 is a mess west of downtown after a pileup involving at least one 18-wheeler on the bridge over the Trinity River.

All westbound lanes and one eastbound lane of I-30 remain closed four hours after the 7:22 a.m. crash just east of Beckley Avenue, which left a box truck hanging over the guardrail and facing the wrong direction.

A highway cleanup crew prepared to hook up the truck to a heavy-duty wrecker. (Brad Loper/Staff Photographer)

Six men were taken to the hospital, all listed as stable, according to Dallas County sheriff’s spokeswoman Carmen Castro. The cause of the crash was under investigation.

Traffic was at a standstill through downtown all the way back to First Avenue. The eastbound lanes are slow back to Cockrell Hill Road because of onlooker delays.

As usual when there’s a crash over the Trinity, I-35E, I-45 and Woodall Rodgers are also backed up and promise to stay that way through the morning rush.

There’s also a diesel spill that a hazmat team must clean up, which often delays efforts to reopen the highway.